Hunting Season

A short story of 10 pages. An Indian from Jémez Pueblo is shot and killed while hunting for rabbits to feed his family. An Albuquerque newspaper reporter thinks a drug dealer is to blame. But because the police think the shooting is just a hunting accident, it's up to the reporter to prove what really happened. This short story won the 2004 Tony Hillerman Mystery Writing Contest and was published in Cowboys & Indians magazine. Its illustration is by book-cover artist Peter Thorpe.